Hello -- We've had another incident in the wee-hours of the night (eastern US) where a mailing list administrator disabled maximum message size limits on their list and a user posted a 4MB email to their list, generating about 1.2GB of traffic. The GNU mail system does not have infinite bandwidth, and posting such a message degrades quality-of-service to unacceptably low levels and is an unreasonable use of limited resources.
We have set on the MTA a hard limit on postings to lists.gnu.org. Messages with attachments greater than 200KB (before encoding to a 7bit representation) will be rejected. We feel this strikes an appropriate balance between the utility of sending large attachments and the need to provide a reasonable quality of service for all GNU mail traffic. If you have any questions regarding this change, please feel free to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll be happy to respond. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. -jag --- Joshua "jag" Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Administrator -- Free Software Foundation _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
